Praise be to God, Allah, Vishnu, etc, Starcraft II has been announced!

Unless you are a headless moron living in a cave with 5 or 6 extra chromosomes, you've already heard about it by now.

Anyway I am way frickin excited about this. I have watched the cinematic trailer 5 times, and the game play trailer 3 times. I check the site for updates at least three times a day. It's insane.

One of these years the game will actually be made availabe for purchase. When that happens, I'll camp out for days to buy it.

I have also noticed that there has been a string of blogs about starcraft I. For your information, I play on USEast as Shork. If you play, add your name and server so that we may play, and you will most likely win.

The most annoying thing about battle.net is the backstabbing. If you fall into the previous category of cave-bound mongoloid, a backstabber is someone who allies with you before hitting your base with about 300 carriers. Blizzard has announced that they will be overhauling battle.net, and I hope that part of that overhaul will be a method of tracking backstabbing. I am not sure about the best way of identifying a backstabber. Maybe if 5 or more players (with enough games to prove their not some type of bot) all independently name the same person as a backstabber then a special badge can be given to that player to denote the backstabbing status, then other players can choose whether or not to ban the player from their games. That might work.

I have also seen people complain about how starcraft II will only have three races. Damn it, there will be an expansion pack! It's garaunteed, blizard has never made a game without an expansion pack, so there is plenty of time to add a new race.

I really like the new units, especially the zerglings and nydus worms. The new banelings may prove to be extremely useful if defilers and dark swarm are still in the game. I am really afraid that some of the really good units in SC1 will be removed from SC2. Oh well, we'll have plenty of time to find out.